Suicide Silence is back to Hong Kong THIS WEEK! While you’re counting down to the show, let’s take a few minutes to revisit their song list —— “Sacred Words” is taken from You Can’t Stop Me, first album after Eddie Hermida became Suicide Silence. You can see the furious live clips in the video below. Our local deathcore veterans Massacre Of Mothman will also share the same stage at Hidden Agenda. (They also opened for Suicide Silence’s gig in 2014!)

Architects guitarist Tom Searle passed away after a long battle with cancer at 28. He was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer in 2013 and had removed part of his lower leg. A month later, he was given the all-clear but today, the band expressed that he had been living with cancer for the past three years. (📸: @mohawkmajorie at Heart Town Festival 2014)

Architects’ song “C.A.N.C.E.R.” is about his battle with cancer – He told HMV.com in an interview: “I wrote it after I found out that I had melanoma, skin cancer on my leg, I had surgery to remove it and I wrote it after I’d had it removed. I thought ‘What do people do in these situations?'”The band’s most recent album ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’ was released in May this year. Read the band’s full statement above. Many bands and fans around the world had paid tribute to Tom in their own way. R.I.P. Tom. You will be missed.

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早前分享過有些2000年代的Emo樂團其實也不停的推出新音樂。當中Jimmy Eat World 便是一個好例子，繼2013年的Damage後，他們首次出版新作，名為 Get Right，更公開給樂迷下載。

Earlier last week, we have discussed some bands in the 2000s scene remain very active all these years. Jimmy Eat World is one of them – after 2013’s Damage, the band finally release new song and video “Get Right.” The song is available for free download here (legally!)

Sum 41 have released another music video “War”, from the upcoming album 13 Voices, out October 7. The video shows the band performing in the middle of a California desert in an airplane graveyard. Singer Deryck Whibley, uncovers reminders of his past – a journal, old drawing, t-shirt, guitar, and empty bottle of alcohol in the wreckage – and burns them along with his past life. Whibley says that the crash site represents how he “crashed and burned” and that the graveyard was “a place for a funeral for my past.”

Taking Back Sunday unleash “You Can’t Look Back”, the second single and video from their seventh album Tidal Wave, out on September 16. “You Can’t Look Back” is a gorgeously shot but viscerally-charged video of the band and their friends gathered around a campfire, when something happens wholly unexpectedly to vocalist Adam Lazzara. The sound of the album expands the band’s old palette, especially evident on the album’s lead-off single and title track which channels The Clash both sonically and energetically. “I think this idea of making songs that we wrote for ourselves started with Happiness Is… and since the reaction to that album was so positive it really encouraged us to take that a step further with this album,” guitarist John Nolan explains.

Korn premiered new video “Insane” taken from upcoming album The Serenity Of Suffering, set to release on October 21. They described it as “a ghastly take on post-mortem photography or ‘momento mori,’ the practice of preserving loved ones after death with images.”

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After releasing a brand new video “Hardwired” last week, Metallica shares a teaser of their upcoming full-length album, Hardwired…To Self Destruct, with a section of another new song, “Moth Into Flame” (slide to 2:00)

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相信大家也記得 Yellowcard 宣布會於9月30日發布最後一張專輯及進行告別巡演。樂隊繼早前分享的Rest In Peace (瀏覽已超過過百萬次!)，再推出新視頻The Hurt Is Gone。樂隊介紹：「The Hurt Is Gone 主題是關於在成長路上，無論多麼痛苦，必須把握機會和接受變化。這就如是我們作為樂隊的一面鏡子，因為他們決定改變，為自己人生下一頁做好準備。正如當中的歌詞 —— Change comes for you even if you’re hiding out / So wake to this truth and maybe you’ll believe me now。」

Yellowcard announced they will release their final album on September 30 and have their farewell world tour. The band just dropped the new video “The Hurt Is Gone” – the follow-up to “Rest In Peace” which has racked up nearly one million views on Youtube since its debut one month ago.

“The Hurt Is Gone” is thematically about taking chances and accepting change in order to grow, no matter how painful. The theme mirrors the position in which the band is themselves, as they get ready for the next step in their own lives (“Change comes for you even if you’re hiding out / So wake to this truth and maybe you’ll believe me now”).

Let’s officially kick off our “2000s Music Feature”! In the upcoming few weeks, we will revisit one classic a day to take you down the memory lane of the 2000s scene. We have picked The Used’s “Buried Myself Alive” for your pleasure —— The song is the third single from the band’s self-titled debut album out in 2003. It remains as one of the most frequent song they performed in live shows. In the video, each member is trapped in an inescapable enclosure, as a metaphor of being buried alive in a relationship.

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Yellowcard premiered the now pop-punk classic video of “Ocean Avenue” in 2004. The song is the second single from the album of the same name. Song title “Ocean Avenue” and lyrics “Cherry Street” refer to the actual streets in the band’s hometown Jacksonville, Florida. Yellowcard released disband announcement last month —— the upcoming album and world tour will be the last farewell.

“Reinventing Your Exit” is the lead single off Underoath’s 4th album, They Are Chasing For Safety, released in 2004. The band was initially labelled as “Christian post-hardcore”, but later they explained, “Christianity is the “backbone of our lives, especially in the way that we handle certain things, but it’s not so much the backbone of our lyrics. It’s not like every song is a lesson from the Bible or something. It’s just normal life struggles” The band have announced a few reunion shows this Fall.

“In This Diary” is always the perfect song to say goodbye to the summer (holiday) —— The Ataris released “In The Diary” in February 2003 as the lead single from their fourth album So Long, Astoria. It becomes one of their most well-known song, alongside the cover of their hit cover song, “The Boys of Summer”, originally recorded by Don Henley.

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[FLASHBACK] Marilyn Manson On Acceptance And Life

Mr. Manson to teach us a life lesson – “I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.”